LEE FRIEDLANDER/ SIGNS

This publication features Friedlanders photographs of the signs that inscribe the American landscape, from hand-lettered ads to sto refront windows to massive billboards. The book collects 144 photographs made in New York and other places across the U.S., and feat ures self-portraits, street photographs, and work from series including The American Monument and America by Car, among others. Ille gible or plainspoken, crude or whimsical, Friedlanders signs are an unselfconscious portrait of modern life.